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Etherchannel Overhead

joel-metz
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How much overhead does etherchannel add to a packet? Does it affect the mtu size? Thank You in advance!

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leonvd79
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Practically zero. Because the Ethernet frame is not modified. You cannot compare an Etherchannel with a tunnel interface.

The frames are distributed between the participating interfaces in the channel. The source/destination/port information is used by the XOR algorithm to load-balance across the channel-members.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/tsd_technology_support_protocol_home.html

HTH

--Leon

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